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8- TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1919. V Jltormw 0rtmtan mABLlSIIED BY HENRY I. PITTOCK. -Published by The Oregonian Publishing- Co. 13." Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MUKDEN. JC. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Aaso ' elated Prese. The Associated Press la e cluKively entitled to the use- for publication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local iwi published herein. All ; rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. - 'Subscription Rate s Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) . ralty. Sunday Included, one year Taily, Sunday Included, six months... Iiailv. Sunday Included, three months. " Dallv, Sunday Included, one month... aliy. without Sunday, one year - Pally, without Sunday, six months... - Ially, without Sunday, one month.... "Weekly, one year.......... "Sunday, one year. -.Sunday and weekly - 18.00 4.25 2.5 .75 6.00 3.23 .60 1.00 2. 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Clearly, he has under taken to restore in the "wet" states a short "wef .period before constitu ef'sperl libiTion - tional prohibition can become effec- . tive. Logically he must, ana suppos ; edly will, now end the war-time pro- - hibition by declaring demobilization - complete and restoring the status quo in the breweries and distilleries ' and the surviving saloons of the ... country. ; If the stores of liquor lawfully ; manufactured and still on hand - could be disposed of in any way ei oept through the medium of the sa I loon, or of public sale to any and all comers, the president's astonishing act would have produced no great commotion. But the reopening of the saloon, once effectively and - wisely closed, means an orgy of :. drunkenness, dissipation, waste, idle- ness and criminality in metropolitan centers, and a demoralizing and - wretched experience wherever the .. raloon is tolerated. In times so tense and uncertain it is an unhappy ' and unfortunate reversion to old dangers, now greatly aggravated by ; the reckless and restless temper of - many men and some women. -- - The president has sought to ren- der a service to the makers and own- ers of stores of liquor. But in doing it he has served the country illy. It would be better, far better, to pay these men out of the government treasury for their losses, and turn their whiskey, beer and wines into the gutter than to permit it to be .. passed out over the old-time and sadly-disgraced bars. ... . FACTS CALLING FOB ACTION'. The evidence of Lieutenant Van . Euren, of General Wood's staff at ;" Gary, and of Oscar E. Anderson, chairman of the steelworkers" coun cil at that town, raised some ques tions in the public mind which call .. for answers from members of the ; cabinet and from strike leaders. Asked whether he did not think f the unions "would get further be- fore the public if you got rid of these i. reds, purged your organization com pletely of them and went ahead ' without them," Mr. Anderson an- - swered: m- We don't make religious and political - distinctions in calling a strike. Then do the leaders of the steel workers call the distinction between men who are loyal to the American ' republic and the men who seek to T destroy it by revolution a "political T. distinction?" That is an application ; of political terms which is common " in countries where revolution is the only known means of settling contro versies between parties, but it is not " accepted in the United States where controversies are settled by the bal lot and where the minority submits i- to the verdict. Mr. Anderson's reply suggests that, though he may have been naturalized, he is not yet an ; American. ; Lieutenant Van Buren said that the army officers found in Gary thousands of copies of the manifesto of the communist party of Russia, printed by the Arbeiter Zeitung Pub lishing company of Chicago and i. when Senator Kenyon asked: "Is this " stuff going through the malls?" he replied: "Oh yes." Then the mails operated by the government are actually used to cir culate literature advocating the vio lent destruction of the government. Lieutenant Van Buren produced a considerable quantity of I. W. W. lit erature seized at Gary, and he said .that nearly all of the members of a Hungarian society who were arrested said they were members of the I. W. W. Was not the effect of the con viction of Haywood and others at .. Chicago to declare the I. W. W. a se ; ditious conspiracy, to be hunted down wherever it showed itself? There seems to be work for Attor ney- General Palmer here. . - The lieutenant also showed circu lars printed by the German-Ameri can Citizens league, the purpose of which is "to perpetuate German kul- tur in the United States," which sup ports "any kind of anti-American agitation" and which prints "this ; typical red literature in Germany.' ; Peace with Germany has not yet been proclaimed, the espionage act is still in operation, and it would seem to be the attorney-general' duty to pursue the good work of ex- terminating German kultur which our soldiers did in France. Lieutenant Van Buren also said , regarding the members of the Hun garian Socialist Federation: We looked up Several men on this list. and recommended that they be deported. The immigration authorities refused to act. however, though one of them admit ted he was a socialist, an I. W. W. and a bolshevik. It seems you have to get them with a bomb In tltelr hands before the im migration, officials will act. This implies that the immigration ; commissioner needs zeal to learn how to do it, in place of his present how-not-to-do-it attitude. - In the) American Legion' we hav an active, aggressive force in favor of law enforcement, preservation o the government and destruction of all revolutionary activity. It would do good service by stirring into ac tion the postmaster-general, the at torney-general, the immigration com missioner and any other officials 'who are asleep at the switch. The degree of reliance which can be placed on a union police force was demonstrated by the riots growing out of the street car strike at Knoi ville, Tenn. Charges of inefficiency were made against the police, one member was accused of giving a dol lar to 'a strikebreaker who deserted his car, and troops were ordered to the city to restore order. The proof is clear that when the police owe a dual allegiance to the law and to a labor union and when labor becomes riotous, the people are deprived of the protection of the law. A police man, like any other man, cannot serve two masters. THE PI.ArN TRUTH. (From the statement of President Wilson on the coal strike.) "It is time for plain speaking. These matters with which we now deal touch not only the welfare of a class, but vitally concern the well being, the comfort and the very life of all the people. I feel it is my duty in the public interest to declare that any attempt to carry out the purpose of this strike, and thus to paralyze the indsutry of the country with the consequent suffering and distress of our own people, must be considered a grave moral .nd legal wrong against the government and the peo ple of the United States. . I can do nothing else than to say that law will be enforced and the means will be found to protectthe. interests of the nation in any emergency that may arise out of this unhappy business. "From whatever angle the subject may be viewed it is apparent that such a strike in such circumstances would be the most far-reaching plan ever presented in this country to limit the facilities of production and distribution of a necessity of life and thus indirectly to restrict the pro duction and distribution of all the necessaries of life. A strike under these circumstances is not only un justified, it is unlawful. "I cannot believe that any right of any American worker needs for its protection the taking of this extra ordinary step, and I am. convinced that when the time and money are considered it constitutes a funda mental attack which is wrong, both morally and legally, upon the rights of society and upon the welfare of our country." . SOME THINGS LABOR MUST LEARN. The plan for amicable adjustment of labor disputes which was proposed at the industrial conference by Sec retary of Labor Wilson has some merit and might have some chance of acceptance under other circum stances. It would need to be guarded against the unreasonable delays which marked the operations of the war labor board. These delays were so great as to amount to denial of justice and they were themselves the cause of strikes. But. before any plan of arbitration and mediation can have any chance of success, labor must be brought to accept certain principles as axioms, which neither they nor any other party to a labor dispute may dare to dispute. One Is the inherent right of the nation to forbid a strike as injurious to the nation's paramount right to live. This principle was lost to sight so long as strikes affected only a single mill or mine or only the mines or mills of a single district for then he loss and suffering were local and were mitigated by ability to obtain supplies elsewhere. But strikes now involve all the steel works and may involve all the coal mines or all the railroads and may cut off the entire supply of some necessary commodity or service. Therefore the right to strike must be subordinated to the higher right of the nation to live. Labor needs also to learn that a contract, when made by the author- zed officers of a union, must be ob served by all the members of that union, and may not be broken be cause some become dissatisfied or because a union sees an opportunity by striking to extort better terms. In business no man will deal with one who acts in that manner, and the same rule must apply to labor unions. On the same principle, an agree ment to submit a controversy to ar bitration is an agreement to abide by the decision, whatever it may be. Un- ess labor shows good faith and ac cepts an adverse decision as readily. though not as cheerfully, as one in bis favor, employers will not arbi trate. Not many years have passed since labor called for arbitration and the difficulty was to induce employers to consent. Employers now show gen eral readiness to accept it, but labor prefers to fight out its quarrels by striking. There must be a change of attitude on the part of labor, and this may be hastened by the change of front on the part of the public. which has come around to the opin ion that strikes are often declared to enforce unjust demands and finally as incidents of revolution-, and that the right to strike does not include the right to cause nation-wide suf fering. When this has been impressed on the mind of- labor and when the reds have been suppressed, impris oned or deported, the time may be ripe for new efforts at arbitration. REINSTATING WAR INSCRANCK. The decision of the United States treasury department that soldiers and sailors who have been out of the service eighteen, months or longer may reinstate their policies up to December 31, 1919, by paying two months premiums, providing they are still physically insurable, is a strong indication of the desire of the government to stand between the men and the possibility of their abandoning the principle of life in surance. The government is in disinterested position. It would profit financially by discontinuance of pol lcies on which it is losing money, but large considerations of public benefit prevail. The statement of a govern ment actuary mat the premium charges actually represent a loss of $30 a year to the government on each maximum policy is an excellent argument in favor of not permitting these government insurance policies to lapse. - The recognized position of life in surance in the scheme of thrift, the fact that it is no longer necessary to argue with the experienced business man to induce him to provide him self with it, would make it appear that the government, offering pro tection below cost, ought not to have any difficulty about holding its cus tomers. But millions of lapsed poli cies furnish uncontrovertible evi dence that theory and practice do not match. Soldiers and sailors probably never will be able to Insure their lives as cheaply as under gov- 1 eminent auspices, yet successive a p. peals from war insurance headquar ters fail to stem the tide. There seems to be something in herent in the fact of government management and direction that mili tates against its success in compe tition with private enterprise. An in surance solicitor who said in New York the other day that he was meeting with his greatest success among ex-service men illustrated the point. There are a few phases of government insurance which un doubtedly could be improved upon; there is not much doubt that some improvements will be made in the course of time; but while congress and the bureaus struggle with poli tics and red tape, private enterprise adapts itself quickly, to circum stances, meets the new needs as they arise, and walks away with the busi ness. A CRISIS COMING IN BRITAIN. Although defeat of the British cabinet in a vote on the alien bill may not be deemed serious enough to cause an immediate crisis, it is an important stage in the gradual break-up Of the Lloyd George coali tion ever since It was elected to par liament last December b'y the great est majority in history. The cabinet has been open to a constant series of attacks from all sides, and has been held responsible for all the troubles which were the inevitable accompaniment of reconstruction. The present government is an an omaly because it is supported by a large body of unionists, a handful of liberals and a handful of laborites, and is headed by a radical who was the unionists' bitterest enemy until the necessities of war drove them to accept him as the man of the hour. It started . with an ambitious pro gramme of reconstruction, in execu tion of which it has been embar rassed by its tory backing, by the absence of its premier at the peace conference and by the problems of demobilization. Labor, conscious of its power, spurred on by foreign rev olutionists and infected with bol shevism, has caused strike after strike, not of the ordinary kind, but to enforce a socialist programme and ether political demands. By half yielding, the govern ment has encour aged this movement until it culmi nated in the railroad strike, in which the government, backed by the pub lic, made a good fight and brought the strikers to terms. But it has alienated labor, and has been con stantly attacked for extravagance and lack of an Irish policy. There has developed from this sit ation a new movement ' within the coalition, in which a large body of the younger, more progressive union- i.ta Kir T rui nnkai-t to . 1 i . . posed to form a new coalition with a . ,. v,ii. , . . ,, I t-VllVJ TVlUWil V LrCAl OS L partner of capital but would reject such socialist schemes as national ization of mines, to which the labor party is committed. Although hith rto opposed tohome rule, the Cecil wing seems inclined to even greater concessions to Ireland than are in cluded in the suspended Asquith bill. The two wings of the liberal paity also are getting together under the lead of Asquith, and Lloyd . George has prepared for the coming storm by publishing a programme of social reform. Within a few months we may see an election in,. Britain wherein a member of one df the oldest aristo cratic families, a descendant of Queen Elizabeth's Cecil, will figure as the principal In a fight' for a pro gramme so radical asi would have made his forefathers gasp. A NEW CHAPTER- OF RESERVATIONS. The new set of reservations to the German treaty that .have been adopted by the majority of the sen ate committee is in some respects an improvement on those first presented by Senator Lodge, in other respects more injurious to the prospect that the treaty would be promptly put in effect if the senate should adopt them. The offensive phrase "we de cline," no longer begins a series of paragraphs, but its effect is still there, scarcely hidden in the body of one after another of the reservations, Several of them are of such char acter that they might throw open the whole treaty to negotiation anew; several others are redrafts of those which have been under discussion for months, superfluous but harmless. and serving the purpose of calming the fears of the timid; and another group is ' designed to reaffirm the authority of congress over appoint ments and expenditures an implied rebuke to the president, which is strictly a domestic affair, of no con cern to the other signatories. The provision in the preamble that the American ratification shall not become effective until the four other great powers have accepted the re servations may be held to conflict with the clause of article 440 provid ing that the treaty shall become ef fective upon ratification by three of the principal allied and associated powers. t The declaration that the United States "withholds its assent to ar ticles 156, 157 and 158 (relating to Shantung) and reserves full liberty of action with respect to any con troversy which may arise under said articles" between China and Japan cannot properly be called a reserva tion. It is, in fact- a declaration of dissent from one of the important sections of the treaty and is actually an amendment. The senate cannot expect that Japan, in particular, and the powers which made agreements with Japan awarding Shantung to that power will consent to this na lion's- becoming a party to the other section of the treaty while reserving the right to contest this section. The necessities of the case require that the treaty be a compromise and, if this country's right to dissent from one section should be conceded other nations may claim the same right as to other sections until all questions decided at Paris would be reopened and Jhe treaty would be torn in pieces. At the best, delicate negotiations must be undertaken, ac companied by great danger of fric tion with Japan. Reservation 8, stipulating that the reparation commission will regulate or interfere with commerce between the United States and Germany "only when the United States approves such regulation or interference' seems unnecessary in view of the fact that this country is to be repre sented on the reparation commission and that section 13 of annex 2 of the reparation part of the treaty requires unanimity . on "questions involving the sovereignty of any of the allied and associated powers." Under another reservation the sen ate would have the right to confirm delegates to this and all other com missions, congress might define their authority and they would be in con giant communication with, ifce stata department, which would permit no action by them which would be dis approved by public opinion. Emer gencies may arise requiring prompt, decisive action by the reparation commission to compel Germany to respect its obligations, and these could not await specific authority from congress. The proposed reservation to article 16 is a flat rejection of one of the principal obligations of the league covenant. That article states that any member of the league which re sorts to war in disregard of its cov enants "shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the league," which undertake to sever all trade or financial relations and all intercourse ' with the covenant- breaking state. This is one of the ; few clauses by which members are bound to act upon occurrence of a certain event without awaiting ac tion by their government on advice or recommendation by the league council, yet the senate committee proposes to reserve the right to con tinue relations with the outlaw state. The value of the trade boycott would consist in its certain, immediate and automatic operation, and would be largely, if not entirely, destroyed by doubt as to its imposition or by delay during which the offending state might try through propaganda to prevent adverse action by this nation. The league council would have to be unanimous in the opinion that oc casion for the boycott had arisen, the vote of the American delegate would therefore be necessary and he would vote according to instructions. The boycott would be one of the roost effective means of preventing war, and if this nation were to ob struct Its use, the cause of peace would be gravely injured. Reservation of the right to in crease armaments "whenever the United States is threatened with in vasion or engaged in war" might "be construed as a matter of course un der article 8. but the proposed reser vation might also be stretched by a treacherous power to excuse exces sive armament to repel a bogus threatened invasion. The principle of the disarmament article and of article 10 is that, after armies had teen reduced, the combined forces of the league would suffice to crush any outlaw nation which attacked a member. That leaves no room for the reservation unless we doubt that ether members would live up to the covenant. The reservations in regard to with drawal, article 10, domestic affairs and the Monroe doctrine interpret the covenant in . the sense which Presi dent Wilson says that its framers in tended, and should not cause any ob- - "V ; . Vi VVt son s statement that the condit Wil- son s statement that the condition at tached to article 10 would be fatal. But the Monroe doctrine has been so ariously interpreted that the other nations may ask the United States to define it, lest it be made to cover ubjects which they may hold to be proper subjects for league action. The reservations in regard to ap pointments and the American quota of league expenses may be taken as imed directly at the president. They are the reaction from his conduct in not making the senate a party to ne gotiation of the treaty, in sending agents to many countries without au thority of congress and without con firmation and in incurring heavy ex pense without appropriation. It is tot conceivable that the senate in tends seriously to insist on all of its formidable list of reservations, some of which are radical amendments. but may use some as a vehicle for others reaffirming its authority and restoring what it considers the limits of executive power. It is refreshing to find among the people of the defeated empires a man so frank as Dr. Otto Bauer, of Vienna, who admits that Austria 'deserved what she got," should stop appeals to the allies for help and should help herself. , If that advice be followed, Austria may yet become a self-respecting nation. A more terrible fate than that of Lieutenants Connolly and Water- house cannot easily be imagined, but the story is brightened by the fine., manly sentiment of their dying let ters to their mothers. Such men make all Americans proud to own them as fellow-countrymen. In a riot of longshoremen in New Tork yesterday ten arrested were "badly beaten." according to report, and two went to a hospital. Any body who knows longshoremen will understand just what the "cops" did with their sticks. The dimming law is not observed by many people on the roads leading from the city. That is due, perhaps. to the cheap vehicle, not equipped. So, at least, believe those who oc casionally are blinded by the glare. Consular Agent Jenkins, held by Mexican bandits for ransom, was re leased when this government de manded it of the Carranza govern ment. The veriest Greaser knows when the Gringo means business. They1 quarreled and made Wilson possible seven years ago, yet Taft to day has nothing but the best to say of Roosevelt. Taft was, is and will be a big man. Now the fire bureau has discontin ued gjving the correct time on re quest by telephone, only the clergy men are left, and they cannot use expressive language when disturbed. Plans are being made to care for the needy in the steel strike. Their little savings seem to have been smaller than supposed. It seems that whenever the Mexi can bandits need money, they kidnap Mr. Jenkins. The wonder is that he is still a millionaire. Lady Astor wants to keep the hon ors in the family and, having been an American woman, it is a good guess she will. Of oourse Wood will be ordered by Baker in command of troops at the coal mines, to get him in bad with labor. Navigation in Lake Washington canal must be perilous when a yacht can ram a tug and sink her. Well, does whisky, with a bit of able assistance, run this country? We shall see. Winter in October in Ugh! Portland! Thus. endeUi pr; Enui, BV-PRODlCTS OP THE PRESS. Straaaje Memento of Famous Dead Presented by Admirers. It Is not every man, not every hero-worshiper -who would esteem the tooth of his hero of more value than diamonds. There is a ring be longing to an English nobleman, in which the place of honor, formerly occupied by a diamond, is given to a tooth that once did duty In a human law, says the New Tork Evening Post. This tooth cost no less than 83650; but it was the tooth of Sir Isaac New ton. A relio collector sold it at auc tion in 1846, and the nobleman who bought It gave it the place of a dia mond in his favorite ring. Another tooth, which so far excites the veneration of hero worshipers as to be able to hold a court of its own and to draw from long distances a small host of followers, is one that was originally hidden behind the lips of Victor Hugo. It is kept at his former residence in a glass case bearing the inscription, "Tooth drawn from the Jaw of Victor Hugo by the dentist on Wednesday, August 11, 1871, in the gardens attached to the house of Mine. Koch, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon." The wig of a literary man appears to have been even more sought after than his teeth. That which Sterne wore while writing "Tristram Shan dy" was sold soon after the writer's death for .$10,000, and the favorite chair of Alexander Pope brought $5000. . j The most extravagant instance of literary hero worship Is that of a well-known Englishman, who con stantly wears in a small locket at tached to a chain around his neck a part of the charred skull of Shelley. College tradition says that Daniel Webster was not impressive as a freshman at Dartmouth. He was de scribed by one of his classmates aa "thin, awkward and so dark that one of the villagers took him for a new Indian pupil on his arrival, much to 'Black Dan's' disgust." He came to Dartmouth, it is said, direct from the farm, where "the only way his scythe would hang right was .upon the limb of a shady apple tree.' In his early speeches at the debating club he was apt to be a trifle ex travagant in his rhetoric. For in stance, he is said to have spoken of Napoleon as "the gasconading pil grim of Egypt," and to have declared that France, "not yet satisfied with the contortions of expiring republics, spouted her fury across the Atlan tic" , When the old birthplace of the American humorist. Bill Nye, was burned a few days ago at Shirley, Maine, there was blotted out one of the ancient landmarks of Piscataquis county. A late electric shower did its destructive work. Lightning struck the buildings, and fire finished the task. It was here that Bill Nye cracked his first joke on his parents when at 3 years of age, as he told the story, he "took them by the hand" and told them that Piscataquis county was no place for them, leading them forth to Wisconsin and the life of western pioneers. Thereby Maine lost considerable advertising such as would have accrued to the state had this humorist remained in the pine tree state. But ho left his birthplace behind him, and it was this of which the town was justly proud, until now comes the end of the ancient dwelling. It was the old home of descendants of Benjamin Nye, who founded the family. In the interesting collection of books formerly the property of Theo dore Roosevelt on exhibition at the York Historical society, is a large brown volume, resembling a family bible of gigantic proportion, gilt edged and to the last degree ornate. The book bears the title, "Die Wart burg." A rather forceful example of the 'Irony of fate to read the name on the fly leaf! "Emperor William II" is scrawled across the bottom of the page in the large type of Sternburg, the German ambassador accredited to Washington in 1908, the year the presentation was made, and who presented it in the name of hia then exalted master. The book is largely historical in character and is profusely illustrated, for the most part with exceedingly artistic wood engravings. The emperor fully in tended that bis gift should represent the best that Germany could do in ornate and elaborate bookbinding. On the other side of the oaae one's eye Is met and held by a series of rather tall. thin, slightly aesthetic looking books, in green bindings that suffer nothing by comparison with their sizable neighbor. These books bear the title Dle Oesterrelchlsche Ungarische Monarchic." They are the gift of Francis Joseph I., the aged emperor, who for so many years swaged the destiny of the dual mon archy with a hand of iron. The books were presented to Roosevelt on the 9th of August in 1904 by the Austrian ambassador in the name of his mon arch. Adelina Patti on one of her visits to San Francisco was the guest one evening at the home of some people who were her intimate friends and had been her guests in her home in Wales, it Is told in the New Tork Sun. Patti discovered in the company two young fellows sne had heard on an overland tram singing to their own banjo and guitar accompaniment. To their confusion she demanded that they must "oblige," and insisted that it was Just what she wanted to hear when they protested that they sang only darky songs. Instruments were produced and the young men began rather haltingly with the quietest and most sentimental songs they knew. Patti, was not satisfied. "Those funny. lively ones," she demanded They, encouraged, gradually worked into brisker songa. She hummed along with them until they swung into a rattling medley, when she joined with full throated voice in these words: Chlllen, keep In do middle of de road, Chlllen. keep in da middle of de road! Doan turn onto de lef. Doaa turn onto de risht Jess keep in de middle of de road! Then, laughing and singing, she led the nonsense when the medley came to these worda: Shame, shame, 'tis aa awful shame! Landlady's raised da rent, boat da ha ain't to blame. Chuck full of hnnirah. Cain't stay no Ionian Bye. bye. my honey. I'se a-cwine. "I never before had such tun sing ing," she said. "I wonder what a concert audience would do if I gave as an encoure: "Chuck full of huntih, Calnt sins no longah! - Bye, bye, my-honey, I'ao a-a'la"i Those Who Come and Go. Postmaster W. A. Moran of Boring, and W. R. Telford, a merchant of the same place, were in Portland yester day telling of a route which they ad vocate for a link In the Mount Hood loop.- Their location runs from Gresb am along the track of the P. R. L. St P. company to Boring, then fol lows a water grade to Sandy, strik ing the old Oregon Clty-Kelso road a short distance from Boring. All rail road crossings are eliminated by this location with the exception of the one in the town of Boring. Messrs. Morsn and Telford say that the road would have a 3 per cent grade and would be relatively inexpensive to construct. They also say that this route would give an outlet to the Es tacada country and by building a "T," traffic could be easily diverted to Oregon City. There have been half a dozen routes proposed to con nect with the government location beyond Sandy. That's too good a railroad to go to waste," asserted Ben F. Jones, mayor of Newport, who Is at the Imperial. Mr. Jones referred to the road built by the government to get out spruce, and which connects Newport and Ta quina. The government was almost on the verge of consenting to operate a passenger service between the two points, says tbe mayor, when the spruce Investigation started. As for the railroad, it shoots off Into a for est which would keep it supplied with logging freight for the next half century. Spruce logs which had been turned out for the government were recently sold to a paper factory and will be shipped to the mills at Ore gon City. For 28 years George S. Holmes of San Francisco has been traveling up and down the coast buying fruit and vegetables for the eastern market. These goods are usually shipped to New Tork where Mr. Holmes and his brother are in the produce business. In the early days it was difficult to pick up enough products to supply the eastern market, but the situa tion Is different now. The principal shipments from the Pacific northwest at this time of the year are apples. onions and seed spuds, all of which command a very good pries this year. Mr. Holmes la making an extended stay at the Multnomah. John C. Crawford, state senator for Klickitat and Skamania counties in the Washington legislature, was at the Imperial yesterday. He lives at Grand Dalles, which is Just across the Columbia river from The Dalles, and for years he was as interested in the keen political contests in Wasco coun ty aa ha was in his own territory. Senator Crawford was first elected on a "sticker" and a'fter serving in the lower house, took a shot at the state senate and defeated a democratic banker for the Job. Captain Foster, who has been sail ing in Alaskan waters for a gener ation, stated in the Multnomah yes- terday that he has not visited Port land in the past 23 years. "It waa some town then, but oh, boy! what , a chanwe." says the captain. "I did j not realise that Portland would ever grow to be such a metropolitan city. 1 No: the mining has not stopped in Alaska. There will be some of the biggest ramps opened up next spring ir.d tiirse will cause nearly as much excitement as In the Klondike days." I'eter ' Wilson and Charles Marks arrived In town from Ininaba yester day, a town which Is pretty near the edge of the state in the northeastern part. Imnaha has a population of about 50 people and Is a regular post office, SO miles from the nearest rail-ro.-td point, which same Is Enterprise. The village Is on the edge of the Wal lowa national forest reserve and Is on the Imnaha river. Judge H. H. Belt of the 12th Judi cial district and whose address is Dallas is at the Imperial. The judge's term does not expire until January 2. 1921. but he or his successor will have to be elected a year from next month. The Judge is a republican, but his brother, who Is In the city with him, is Just as ardent a democrat. C. J. Kennedy of Jacksonville is at the Oregon, which recalls the asser tion of the late Dr. Condon that back of Jacksonville is a hill of granite which Is the oldest, or one of the old est, pieces of land in the world. The geologist declared that the granite mountain near Jacksonville is even older than the Siskiyous. There are not many people at Fort Rock, but one of the few, Vernon Finley, registered at the Perkins yes terday. The town takes its name from an extinct volcano, whose walls, 400 feet high, are a natural fortifi cation. Fort Rock is in Lake county and is more than 70 miles to Bend, the nearest railroad point. On the Ochoco river George Rus sell has what others say is one of the finest cow ranches in Oregon. Mr. Russell breesed into the Im perial lobby yesterday afternoon and shook hands with about half of the loungers, for he is a man of exten sive acquaintance. The cause of hia visit was three carloads of stock. A. L. Fraley has returned from at tending the bankers' convention at St. Louis and the 'American Institute of Banking at New Orleans. He waa accompanied by Mrs. Fraley. On the return trip they visited the grand canyon and found it up to the adver tisements. They were shivering around the Benson when Edward Ottensen walked in and registered. "Ah. this Is fine," said he. "It reminds me of my home." Clerk Ross Finnigan glanced at the register. Mr. Otten sen signed from Bergen, Norway. A. S. Cooley, for many years a mer chant at Enterpriae, Or., has arrived at the Multnomah to browse among the wholesalers and jobbers and give a flock of orders. Walla Walla wheat, which has a standard of its own. is the cereal from which H. L. Copeland manufactures flour. Mr. Copeland of Walla Walla Is at the Imperial. He talks Chinese faster than a Chinaman and says nothing, does Fred S. Bynon, who used to be at Salem, but who registered from Pen dleton at the Imperial yesterday. E. A. Wehnert of Eddyville and E. Wallin of Pioneer are at the Perkina These two towns are both located on the Taqulna river. In Lincoln county. Chief of Police A. L. Roberts of Pendleton Is at the Perkins. Chief Roberts is in town on a little matter at the federal court. W. R. Lebc of Tacoma is at the ' "hould give their contracts, and de Benson. Mr. Lebo is in the city as a dared that these are vital issues for government witness in the cement ithe P"bllc to help solve, trial now in progress. ; The unlawful, flagrant attitude of - some labor organizations is causing An employe of the Japanese gov-' the mighty hand of public sentiment eminent. Tatsuya Kato registered to rise, and if the policy is not yesterday-at the Hotel Portland from changed when the hand reaches the Tokio. 1 proper height it will fall, and the j blow will be as powerful as when the Taklmya Kate. Interested in the same hand fell upon the heads of hipping business of Japan, is an ar- rival at the Benson. The pioneer sheepman of Wapini- tla, Frank Gabtl. la at the Perkins. SAVKTH TUG OREGON NEWSPAPER i First and Second Meat Helpful Cltt- aena Identified. Junction City Times. The most helpful and indispensable citizen of our community is the ed itor, even if we have to say it our selves. We have never been afraid or ashamed to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Next to the editor in impor tance and helpfulness to the progress and comfort of human society is the washerwoman. The Uaderpald Juryman. Pendleton East Oregonian. Three dollars daily for Jurymen ap pears Insufficient recompense with wages and prices where they are. It Is bad enough, as one juryman now serving says, to have four horses Idle when they could be earning $12 a day. but "to go in the hole for meals and room seems too much." There is food for thought in the wage scale of our public servants. Foist Hla Have 1st Oregon. Monmouth Herald. Thoman Boulden relates that when he lived in Nebraska he dug a well 165 feet deep and as long as he lived on the place had to lift his water from that depth in the ground. He tried various ways of getting the water to the ton of the ground, ranging from buckets to pumps, but failed to find any easy way of accomplishing it. When he sold the farm he registered a vow that when he settled again It would be in a neighborhood where water came considerably closer to the surface. Sssrrstlire Salem Slosran. Corvallls Gazette-Times. Salem is advertising for a slogan What's the matter with the one Sa lem now has, "Damn Portland"? Good Kverywhere. Vale Enterprise. The home paper ought always to be singing the praise of the home town: but let's make it a chorus in stead of a solo. To Snper-Snekera. Grants Pass Courier. The giant-chicken prophecy may find credence, but who can believe the rest of It? Of course those super chickens and super-eggs will be sold by super-profiteers at super-prices. Sidestepping for a Time. Cottage Grove Sentinel. The old charge that the country press and republicans of the state are aping The Oregonian cannot be brought against them as regards their attitude toward the league of nations covenant. 'Goats' in Portland. Baker Democrat. Only political freebooters in Port land could be found to appear on the stage with Johnson. Men of lofty sentiment and positive connections refused to be a party to the Califor nlan's campaign of misrepresentation. Dropping la Dinner. Amity Standard. To drop in on a person is a reality now. as was proven last Sunday 'when Lieutenant Krancees and Will Rosen balm of McMinnvllle came up by air plane and took dinner at the Rosen balm home. Oreganiaed Labor's Need. Albany Democrat. What organized labor needs most is organization. That is. organization tight enough and disciplined enough to insure the fultillment by the rank and file of contracts made in their name by their chosen representatives. Down With Germnn Grand Opera ! ' Eugene Guard. Many of us have suffered In pre war times when the highbrow mu sicians said we had to take it and say we liked it or be branded as uncul tured In our musical tastes. The public is not going to let the oppor tunity pass to even up an old score. Super-Sartorial Gladness. Corvallis Gazette-Times. Portland's idea of a joke is to get Mayor Baker to attend a "function" in a dress suit while all the others present wear their comfortables. The larger the town the less it takes to amuse it. Cal Cooper's Triumph la Nuts. McMinnvllle News Reporter. J. O. Cooper reports that he has pro duced a walnut that measures 8x9 inches in circumference and weighs 5 ounces with the green hull on and measures 6x7 inches with the hull re moved. Cooper says that if he had a half century more to live he would produce walnuts as big as a man's fist. V mat II la's October Poem. Weston Leader. Late October gives a wealth of de sign, color and: texture which no other season presents. The phos phorescent quality of coloring appear ing in maple, sumac, hawthorn and poplar fascinates the attention and gratifies it- But this enchanting sea son is closing to leave the woods to the grays and browns of winter. The processes of change are inexorable. Crasy "Stunts" In the Air. Salem Journal. Many families are In mourning for bravo men sacrificed to make a record that means nothing and many useful officers have been lost to the -service of their country to gratify a lust for sensation as silly as it is fruitless and futile. A court martial should be the fata of tha responsible officers to eliminate such crazy stunts from the army routine. Wbat'a Doing In Hell Just Nowf Canby News. We never knew there were angels In hell, but we have a Congregational minister's word for it that "The toin myrot preached in tome pulpits under the name of the gospel would make the angels of hell smile." They must certaintly be some "angels" that would select hell as an abiding place, even for a short period of time. What a time tbe old devil must be having just now. Zoology In Harney County. Drewsey-Pioneer-Sun. Gabo Rush says June Ingersoll and Arch Myers are too young to be ex pert prophets on the weather and that neither of them would know "a groundhog from a woodchuck and that a badger hsn't anything to do with the weather anyhow. rub lie Becoming Arouaed. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 2. (To the Editor.) With much pleasure I read the editorial in The Oregonian this morning in which it defined the posi tion of capital and labor radicals, rev olutionist and the public, and the sanctity to which labor and capital capitalists a few years since So truly American was the editorial, t cannot refrain sending thi.M l.-tter of congratulation. FRANK G. DIUK. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamas X Msslsia. THE F1TIST iIPKKIIO BIUDOS Once some little wlnglsass BObltM. who were toiling up a bill Found their pathway quite obatrnctoel by a tiny rippling rUL Just a thread of silver water, but your goblin is discreet And he never. In cold weather, likes to wet his little feet. So they held a consultation on a bed of fluffy moss Underneath a spreading plantain as to how te get across. Not a leaf was there to serve them as a handy ferry boat Not a twig to build a raft of, not a petal they could float. And they'd grown a bit discouraged when one goblin erred. Look there! There's a spider busy spinning fine xtrong cables in the air. Let us see if he won't hang them like a bridge across the grass Hang them well above the water, so that we may safely pass! So they sent a delegation to the spider in his tree Praised his cunning and his spinning, and put forth their little plea And the flattered cable weaver lightly leaped across the stream Threading deftly out behind him many a long and silken beam. Till the cobweb bridge was builded. and the goblins crossed the rill And departed dry and happy on their Journey up the hill. If you doubt the tale I've told you. come with me at dawn come day When the dew Is on the clover and the mist is thin and gray And around behind the oak tree just outside the little glade. You will see a bridge of silver, flung from blade to bending blade. And, although you can't see goblins passing on from shore to shore, Tou will know that they have been there, and you'll doubt my word no more. Pass It Along. Now Uiat Mr. Rockefeller has given $20,000,000 to make better doctors, it Is up to the doctors to make their patients better. m ' Make the Moat of It. With rents at their present figure the telephone company will soon feel justified in charging a half dollar an hour for the use of a telephone booth. Mayhe It'll Hm To Be Done All Over. The fact that the German army is still using poison gas Indicates that the allies didn't kill all the right of ficers. (Coiyrlsht. 1910. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) The Gift of Days. By Grace E. Hall. Oh. many gifts have come to me That I have not deserved. And many a one I've wasted And many a one I've lost; But still one friend ne'er ceases From yrecious stores reserved To send a dally offering. With sacred signs embossed. In gray of early morning. When first my conscious view Beholds the dawn awakening Far in the gold-splashed sky, find an untouched canvas In framework bright and new. Placed at my mental doorway. To please my lingering eye. I've taken many a canvas And painted upon ltd face A picture sadly lacking In skill and charm and truth: Painted the spotless surface With lines none may erase. 9ut never a one I've fashioned Quite perfect, from my youth. But always the giver leaves them. With never a sign of blame For all that I've marred and wasted And all that I've thrown away: Each dawn with a love unceasing (Though I take them oft with ?hame) He briidcs me an untouched canvas. On which I shall paint a Day! Sugar Cane and Sorghum. SILVERTOV. Or., Oct. 26. (To the Editor.) To settle a dispute in school please tell us where and how sugar cane is grown, the kind they make pure cane sugar of: also about por ghum as it is the source of the dis pute. ORVILLli HAMPTON. The sugar cane which furnishes our supply of cane sugajr is grown chiefly in the southern states, Cuba and Ha waii. It is a perennial, but as a grad ual decrease In the size of the canes occurs each year it is the practice to renew a part of a sugar plantation every year. The plants are propa gated by cuttings. They require a deep rich soil and plenty of moisture. Sorghum is a tall maixe-like grass some varieties of which are deficient in sugar. It has only local import ance as a source of syrup, owing to refining difficulties. Among the non-saccharine varieties are Kaffir corn, raillo maize, durra, broom corn, Egyptian rice corn and Jerusalem corn. la Paeifle Fleet to Be Recalled r ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 26. (To the Edi tor.) I have Just returned from Washington, and The Oregonian edi torial of October 23 headed "Next War on the Pacific Coasf' moves me to suggest that the present is an oppor tune time for us to ascertain what grounds there are for the belief held in certain Washington circles that the so-called Pacific fleet is not to be located here permanently, but will shortly be recalled to Atlantic waters. If such a move is contemplated, the sooner we know it the better. It will be easier for the Paciflo coast to pre vent the isuance of such an order than to compel the return of the fleet after it has .once been taken away. SUBSCRIBER. Who Buys Police Ammunltiunf PORTLAND. Or., Oct. 27. (To the Editor.) I overheard a policeman say that in anticipation of an epidemic of holdups this winter it would not be amiss for the officers to take a course at target practice. Then he added that it would probably be done If the officers did not have to buy their own ammunition. When I told him I had always supposed the mu nicipality furnished at least the am munition he merely smiled. If such is the case and if most every one has known that such has always been the case then I can only say that such a state of affairs must date back to barbarian times. ANXIOUS TAXPAYER. Mr. Buik'i Nanahty Question. BAY CENTER. Wash.: Oct. 26. To the Editor.) In-a recent editorial The Oregonian quoted Oompers as scorn ing the thought of refusing "any man the right to quit work." Has Gompers at any time made re mark as to denying "any man the right to begin work?" j Perhaps I am asking a naughty I question; but it interests me. L. L. BUSH. i